Tina Kidger and Emery Moore

Celebrating a legacy in optics

A couple deeply connected to optics is enhancing the field’s future by endowing the Kidger-Moore Distinguished Professorship in Optics at...

Jason Tartick headshot on red background

Good books

In his Wall Street Journal bestseller, The Restart Roadmap: Rewire and Reset Your Career, Jason Tartick ’16S (MBA) provides actionable...

Buzzing through the years

About one year after the University was founded in 1850, Rochester adopted its motto of Meliora—Latin for “ever better.” Today,...

The adventures of Zack and Jill

On their 38th wedding anniversary, Jill Hummel ’81 and her husband, Zack—otherwise known by their self-appointed titles of Captain Zack...

Shane Campbell-Staton ’08 leans against graffiti wall

Stories of evolution

This scholar, evolutionary biologist, and master storyteller uses classrooms and lecture halls along with podcasts, television, and film to attract...